Helena, la luz de Roma

When an empire falters, legends are born. While heroes and cowards alike perished in the arenas of circuses and amphitheaters, in the imperial palaces, a handful of men decided the course of civilization. In the heart of that storm, a woman named Helena would write one of the most extraordinary chapters in history. Centuries before her canonization, Saint Helena was the companion and mother of emperors, as well as the woman who achieved the impossible: the triumph of the cross over the eagle of Rome. At the end of the 3rd century, the Empire crumbled in an unprecedented crisis. Rome unleashed its fury against the Christians, the legions fought against the barbarians, and Helena survived in a world rife with conspiracies and betrayals, certain only that her son Constantine was destined to change the course of history. On the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the author of *The Olive Tree of the Claudii* transports us to the epicenter of the most silent and powerful revolution of Antiquity. Alongside Constantine and the wise Bishop Hosius of Cordoba, Helena will bring about religious tolerance after centuries of persecution. At the end of her life, as the culmination of an extraordinary existence, Helena embarks on her final journey: a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where she will discover the sacred sites that will forever cement her legend.